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Most real relationships are involuntary.

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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I have used the word attention, which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
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